Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Philadelphia had not paid $303,000 of their 1937 bills, two coal companies last week threatened to deliver no more coal to the city's water works. Director Wilhelm F. Knauer of the Department of Supplies & Purchases warned the City Council: " We can't let a city of 2,000,000 go without water. . . . We will simply have to call out our police and seize coal wherever we find it, probably from the railroad trains. It would be a case of committing a technical crime in order to prevent a great human crime...
...French Chamber of Deputies echoed with cries of "Long Live Roosevelt!" and "Vive I'Amerique!" after Air Minister Guy La Chambre, explaining the recent purchase of 600 warplanes in the U. S., paid this tribute: "I take this opportunity of thanking the great American democracy and its leader, President Roosevelt, who has realized that in serving France he is serving peace...
Dominant political party of India is the Indian National Congress. It boasts a paid-up membership of 4,500,000 (yearly party fee: 9ç), puts on spectacular demonstrations, governs, through the seats it holds in the provincial legislatures, nine of the eleven provinces of British India.* Periodically it scares British governors with threats of boycotts and passive resistance campaigns...
...Naziism is unpopular in South America, although the Nazis are propagandizing hard. Dr. Goebbels' paper Der Angriff recognized Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy as adversaries, called them "paid propagandists" of President Roosevelt. The two planned the trip themselves and represented nobody but themselves. They recommended strongly, however, that U. S. press and radio services to South America be improved. The Nazis give the South American press a free news service in Spanish and Portuguese, which misrepresents U. S. happenings, and Nazi broadcasts consistently drown out U. S. programs. As Father Sheehy discovered after giving six NBC and CBS broadcasts...
...when a Federal judge said, "a year and a day in prison," George ("Nat") Burns turned paler than a radio gag. But the judge proceeded: "I shall suspend execution of sentence during good behavior." Upshot was that on Gracie's $4.885 worth of jewels (for which her husband paid $2,000, and which she kept), George paid $8,000 fine, duty and penalties of $9,770-nearly two weeks...